Autumn Cepheus and Cygnus nebulae
The transition from summer to autumn in the northern hemisphere creates a convenient opportunity for observation of the Milky Way. It shines high in…
TS-Optics PhotoLine 130 a few images
TS-Optics PhotoLine 130mm triplet is back. I used to have this telescope a few years ago and made quite a lot of pictures and observations using it.…
A few days with a Daystar Quark
What is the Daystar Quark? Functionally it is a very narrowband filter that passes only a tiny amount of color around the hydrogen alpha emission…
12.41 billion years away
It has been already over four years since I started to "hunt" for distant worlds (usually it is quasar) at my images. The area around M101 galaxy…
Light polluted Iris
Celestial dark stuff requires dark sky to record them. Lesson learned. I was a little bit too optimistic about my suburban conditions when I placed…
The Fox Head
NGC6819 Fox Head is a remote star open cluster in Cygnus constellation, nearby Lyra. This one is about 7200 light years away and contains not so…
Bubble and elusive KjPn 8
Few days ago I put here an entry with NGC7635 Bubble nebula in hydrogen alpha band. Later on I collected some data with RGB filters (3x40 minutes)…
Into the Bubble
This one is hyper classic object - NGC7635 Bubble Nebula in Cassiopeia together with M52 open cluster. This extraordinary HII molecular cloud is…
Bunch of Barnards in Cepheus
These are photons collected over one August night, when the conditions at my suburban location was fair enough for me to decide for classic LRGB…
Crescent and Soap Bubble
At the end of August I collected some more light to extreme classic - NGC6888 Crescent nebula in Cygnus. It is emission nebula placed about 5000…
Barnards more and less obscured
Barnard 352 (larger) and 353 (smaller and less dense) are two dust clouds in the Cygnus constellation. Framed region is at the northern part of well…
NGC4565 Needle Galaxy
I already made an attempt to NGC4565 Needle Galaxy here with 6" newtonian and Atik314L+ camera, and it was long time ago. It is magnificent object,…